| "Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear." »Albert Camus |
| "All politics are based on the indifference of the majority." »James Barrett Scotty Reston |
| "General principles should not be based on exceptional cases." »Robert J. Sawyer |
| "A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades." »Carmen Sylva |
| "Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level." »Joyce |
| "Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law" »Dick Clark |
| "Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon." »Denis Watley |
| "The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling." »Thomas Hardy |
| "All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income." »Samuel Butler |
| "The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time." »Franklin P. Adams |
| "Harriet Do you actually like haggis Charlie No, I think it's repellent in every way. In fact, I think most Scottish cuisine is based on a dare." »So I Married an Axe Murderer |
| "Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal." »Deepak Chopra |
| "Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police." »Albert Einstein |
| "This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based." »Betty Naomi Friedan |
| "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." »Albert Einstein |
| "I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred." »Albert Einstein |
| "All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises." »Henry Clay |
| "It's counter to common sense, but common sense is only based on a very small subset of the universe." »Ian J. Davenport |
| "Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice." »Corazn Cojuangco Aquino |
| "Grace is not against good works It simply does not bless on the basis of good works. We receive blessing from God based solely on the merits of His Son--blessings freely given to us in Christ and nowhere else. The completeness that is in Christ mean deliverance from trying to 'be good' and 'do right' in order to be accepted by God." »Richard Jordan |
| "In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that men know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is look at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home." »Dave Barry |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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